Thanks Marco the command worked great. It's made the job so much easier. Thanks for that. as far as the script goes I haven't graduated to using those yet. I'm not quite sure how to run them. I'll dig around and see if I can find a tutorial on this.

Thanks Brian, it's good to know I'm not the only one that is looking for this functionality. at the moment I have to keep jumping between programs to see the weight of the object i'm creating which is a right pain.

cheers
KRUM